Writing Home: American Women Abroad, 1830-1920

by Mary Suzanne Schriber

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In Writing Home, Mary Suzanne Schriber offers the first comprehensive analysis of the large body of U.S. women's travel literature written betwen the pre-Civil War years and World War I. Examining almost a century's worth of published book-length accounts, ranging from travel diaries of ordinary women to the narratives of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Edith Wharton, Schriber argues persuasively for the importance of gender considerations in the reading...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0813917794

ISBN13:9780813917795

Release Date:August 1997

Publisher:University of Virginia Press

Length:254 Pages

Weight:1.00 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

Related Subjects

Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature & Fiction Social Science Social Sciences Specialty Travel Students Travel Travel Writing Women Writers

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